Ecology Center

I took the day off work today to go to on a field trip with Dawson's class.  We went to a local ecology center where the kids heard a story about making vegetable soup, picked and cut lettuce, learned about herbs, planted onions and beans and finally tasted the delicious soup.  

Miss Kim read one of our favorite stories "Vegetable Soup." 

Next, everyone was put to work cleaning, peeling and cutting vegetables.   

 Everyone was very focused on cutting!  They were using pumpkin carving knives to be safe!  While the soup was cooking, we headed out to explore some of the gardens.

 In the Children's Garden, they were taught how to cut the collard greens by the stem.  After they were cut, the children put them in a basket to be added to our soup!  They cook quickly so, we didn't need to add them until the soup was almost done.

 We then visited the herb garden.  We identified and smelled lots of herbs.  Dawson did not like the smell of the chives!

 Each child had the chance to pet one of the chickens Miss Kim took out of the pen.  It was quite friendly!

 It was fun to feed the chickens some grass.

 Planting our onions....

And finally eating the soup.  Most of the kids said it was good and then changed their minds!  They decided they would rather have their own lunches.  Very cute!!!  I give them a lot of credit...every single child tasted the soup!